Improvement in funnels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN D. SMEDLEY. OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

lMPRO'VEMENT lN FUNNELS.

. peeiiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 0,193. dated October 6, 1563.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. Jonx I). SRUZDLEY. of Chicago, county of (look, State o3 Illinois. haveinventedanewand useful Improvement in- Iunnels to be Used in lilin: (lash-oi livery Description with Liquids: and Ido hereby declare that the following: i.- a t'nlland exact description thereof. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thig specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in \llltlJ- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view Fig. 2, a perspective view. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4 a bottom View.

The nature of my invention comists in so constructing a funnel provided with an indicater to be used in filling eashs. barrels. N with fluids that the precise h ight of fluid may be determined \vithout H'tl'nn'ilig the lunnel 0r thumping or striking: the cad; to determine the height of the liquid by sound.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed todecribe its construction and operation.

I conatrnct my tunnel in the ordinary form enternall with a bowl and conduit leading fronitlie lower or smaller end of the bowl to the requisite depth into the ea k l'n'ish tofit Similar letters refer to similar parts.

A, Fig. i i the bowl ot the tunnel. B i.- the conduit leading from the bottom or small end of the tunnel. The conduit I; in pert'orated with lJUleR or hide passages. as sh wn at C. Figs 1 and 1.. lmnimliately below these holes there is a tloor or di\ isiun, .s,tnade in the conduit 1' K. Figs. 1 and 3. is a crossbar pa ing over the top of the tunnel.

t, Fig. 1. is a small tube Matting from the floor or divi ion a. Fig. 1, pertorating the same, passing up through the funnel and t rminating on the upper side of the (toss-bar K.

D, Fig. 2, is a loop or guid resting upon the cross-bar K.

d is a small rod starting from above the guide D, passing down through the tube 1.- nud extends to the lower end of the conduit B.

()u the rod t, below the division or floor 1i, and within the condui 3, is attached a bob, 5

' the conduit 1.

c. of rot-i; or other buoyant substance, of the IPQll-lail? shape and size. On the upper end of the rod 0 is cut a screw. The nut or key a. Fig. 1. screws upon this end of the rod. When this funnel is in use, the liquid is poured into the bowl A, and passes down through It being intercepted in its course directly downward by the floor or divi ion a. Fig. 1, pawe through the holes or side passages. C. into the body of the cask. The bob 6 inside of the conduit B rests upon the at'i'ai-e of the tlnid. and as the surface of the thud rises its attitude is indicated at the upper end of the rod d.

The nut '71. Fig. 1. can be adjusted at any desired point on the rod (7 which will enable you to til? the i-adtxto any desiredaruount. As the (mini; is being tilled the air escapes up throu h the tube t.

Some of the advantages of this invention are in; follows: When the cask is being filled, you are able to see by the indicator the previse height of the fluid. enabling you to save any over-now. which in using the old-fashiond funnel is always more or less. You can also determine the precise amount in the cask at any time. thus enabling you to fill the cask to any fractional degree.

Having lllllr (l'-''i'll)((l my invention, what I claim as new. and de ire to secure by Letters Patent. is-

1. In combination with a fluid-filling: funnel, so adjusting the rod 1 by means of the nut 11, or its equivaient, that the cash can be filled to any desired quantity.

" Th combination of the floor or division s of said ftlliltei with the side passages, C, for the pnrpo e and .-nb.-tantiall v as described.

:5. The combination and arrangement. in a tluid-tillin; tunnel of the pipe 1.. rod d, bob 6, division tloor a, side passages, U, for the purpose and anlmtatrially as described.

4. Locating the bob c-within the conduit B of said tluid-tilling; funnel, and below the division or floor s, substantially as and for the purposedeseribed.

\Vitnense's: JOB) D. SMEDLEY.

Jas. A. Cowmas, I DANIEL Goonwm, Jr. 

